Local
mayor forbids people to go in the sea after creature tried to rub against swimmers
Angelique
Chrisafis in Paris
Mon 27
Aug 2018 17.27 BSTLast modified on Mon 27 Aug
2018 18.46 BST
A mayor
on France’s Brittany coast took the rare step of banning swimming for several
days after a solitary frisky dolphin tried to get too close to bathers.
Roger
Lars decided last week that it was safest to ban swimming and diving on the
coast near Landévennec, where the over-friendly dolphin had been spotted.
He banned
anyone getting closer than 50 metres to the rutting three-metre dolphin, whom
locals nicknamed Zafar.
The
dolphin was not aggressive, but he had taken to trying to rub up against
swimmers and boats, the local paper Le Télégramme reported.
Zafar had
enthusiastically sidled up to several swimmers who he had then prevented from
reaching the shore. One had to be rescued by boat.
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